Bard envisions the liberal arts institution as the hub of a network, rather than a single, self-contained campus. Numerous institutes for special study are available on and off campus, connecting Bard students to the greater community.

The Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College embodies the fundamental belief that education and civil society are inextricably linked. In an age of information overload, it is more important than ever that citizens be educated and trained to think critically and be actively engaged with issues affecting public life.

2013 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

"less like an object more like the weather"

Sunday, March 24, 2013 – Sunday, May 26, 20131–4 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) presents 14 exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions as part of the requirements for the master of arts degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

CCS Bard Speakers Series : Saskia Bos

Monday, April 1, 20133–5 pm

CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1About The Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Visiting Artists: Gabe Kahane & Timo Andres

Monday, April 1, 20138 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building

Gabriel Kahane is a songwriter, singer, pianist, composer, devoted amateur cook, guitarist, and occasional banjo player. This year, he made his recital debut at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in a program devoted to his music. As a songwriter, he’s released two albums, most recently the critically acclaimed Where are the Arms, hailed by the New York Times for its “extravagant poise and emotional intelligence”.

Timothy Andres is a composer and pianist. He grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His compositions meld a classical-music upbringing with diverse interests in the natural world, graphic arts, technology, cooking, and photography. He has been praised for his “acute ear” by the New York Times’s Anthony Tommasini and “stubborn nose” by the New Yorker’s Alex Ross.

The Role of DNA Shape in the Workings of the Human Genome

Tuesday, April 2, 20134:45 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

A lecture byTom TulliusProfessor of Chemistry and Director of Bioinformatics Boston University

In the age of genomics, DNA is most often depicted as a string of letters. While this is useful for representing the large amount of information encoded in a genome, the underlying molecular nature of DNA is obscured. Readout of genetic information is based on protein binding to specific sites in genomic DNA, but proteins cannot "read" DNA letters – they discriminate between potential DNA binding sites via the principles of molecular recognition. To introduce a structural dimension to genome analysis, we have developed a database of DNA structural patterns, ORChID, based on hydroxyl radical cleavage of DNA. We used ORChID to produce a topographical map of the variation in DNA structure throughout the human genome. I will present recent work in which we use ORChID to assess how DNA topography contributes to the binding of proteins and small molecules to DNA.

Tom Tullius conducts research in genomics, structural biology, and biophysical chemistry. In addition to Chemistry, he is the Professor of Pharmacology and Professor of Experimental Therapeutics in the Boston University School of Medicine. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Visiting Artist: Nicola Tyson

Tuesday, April 2, 20135–7 pm

Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar RoomNicola Tyson's large-scale painting, "Couple," depicts two figures locked in a separate but tense relationship to one another. Each figure is rendered in the artist's chromatically intense palette and commands its space within the canvas frame. The figures are both animated and permanently fixed by the painted surface—a trick that only paintings can readily perform. These figurative "characters" present strange physical amalgams and morphological complexities that describe an anarchic freedom rather than violence, genetic engineering, or alienation. Bizarre yet strangely credible, these characters originate from fertile but exiled parts of what we might inadequately term the "subconscious" or "imagination"—some place in the complex space of the mind, beyond the reassuring confines of "reason."

"Israeli Apartheid and the Myth of Democracy" Talk by Ben White

Tuesday, April 2, 20135 pm

Campus Center, Weis CinemaWhat does "Israeli apartheid" actually mean? Can Israel be both "Jewish" and "democratic"—and what does that mean for Palestinians? Ben White will explore the roots of the conflict and the day-to-day realities of segregation and discrimination.

Ben White is a freelance journalist, writer, and activist. He has published two books, "Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide" and "Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy." He is a researcher with the Journal of Palestine Studies, and his articles have been published by Al Jazeera, The Guardian online, New Statesman, Electronic Intifada, and many others.

Precious Cargo

The Poet and Translator, Thomas Brasch

Tuesday, April 2, 20136:30–8:30 pm

Thomas Brasch (1945-2001) is one of the most fascinating figures in German literature after 1945. His poems, inspired by Brecht, Heine and the European avant-garde, inspire people up to date, his plays intriguingly think through the political turmoils of the 20th century, his films were celebrated at festivals in Cannes and Nice, and his translations of Shakespeare are the best to be found in German language.

Anne Posten‘s essay on translating Thomas Brasch was recently published in an issue of Text + Kritik dedicated to that author’s work and legacy. Her award-winning translation of Tankred Dorst’s novella, This Beautiful Place, appeared last year from Hanging Loose Press. Anne Posten lives in New York City, where she also writes fiction and teaches writing at Queens College.

Thomas Wild is Assistant Professor of German at Bard College. His publications include books on Hannah Arendt, as well as 20th century German literature and political history. He recently edited a collection of essays on Thomas Brasch's work and legacy with Text+Kritik.

Bollywood Film Festival: Hum Aapke Hain Koun...!

Tuesday, April 2, 20137 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema

1994 FilmHum Aapke Hain Koun..!, also known as HAHK, is a 1994 Indian musical romantic comedy family drama film directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya, and produced by Rajshri Productions. It is a remake of Rajshri’s earlier film Nadiya Ke Paar.

Birthright Palestine

A Lecture by Dana Yahalomi

Tuesday, April 2, 20137 pm

Olin, Room 102During the lecture Dana Yahalomi, Public Movement Leader, will present key strategies developed by the movement alongside examples of previous actions. In the last six years, Public Movement has explored the regulations, forces, agents, and policies, formations of identity and systems of ritual which govern the dynamics of public life and public space. The Movement was founded in December 2006 by Omer Krieger and Dana Yahalomi, who later assumed sole leadership in 2011.The lecture will conclude and open into discussion with the recent action SALONS: Birthright Palestine? (February - April 2012, New Museum, NYC) which used the phenomenon of Birthright Israel(1) in order to raise questions about nationality and heritage, as well as about the politics of tourism and branding. In a series of performative public discussions, each adopting existing formats of discursive forums, different publics presented and debated upon related questions and issues that would inform, affirm and/or oppose the proposal to initiate a Birthright Palestine program.

Public Movement is a performative research body which investigates and stages political actions in public spaces. It studies and creates public choreographies, forms of social order, overt and covert rituals. Among Public Movement's actions in the past and in the future: manifestations of presence, fictional acts of hatred, new folk dances, synchronized procedures of movement, spectacles, marches, inventing and reenacting moments in the life of individuals, communities, social institutions, peoples, states, and of humanity.

1 Birthright Israel is a 10-day free trip for Jews between the ages of 18 to 26 who travel around Israel together on a bus. It was founded in 1999, sponsored by the government of Israel and American Jewish philanthropy. Over 300,000 people have participated in the program since its founding. Birthright Israel was founded in the hope to address the following concerns: detachment of diaspora Jews to the state of Israel, an increase in intermarriages between Jews and non-Jews and a need to sustain the Israeli-American Lobby, which for years served Israel with political advocacy and a great source of funding.

Impermanence: Sand Mandala Opening Ceremony

Wednesday, April 3, 20139 am

RKC LobbyThe Venerable Lama Tenzin Yignen, Tibetan Buddhist monk from the Dalai Lama’s home monastery Namgyal and visiting professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will install a sand mandala, a “cosmic diagram that represents the dwelling place or “celestial mansion” of the Buddha of Compassion, over the course of five days. Just when it is complete, the mandala will be ritually cut, swept together, and taken in procession down to the river in this performed lesson on impermanence.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Religion Program.

Wednesday, April 3, 20134:30 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingMarialena Fernandes was born in Bombay but has made Vienna her second home. Fernandes has performed all over the world and is currently a professor of chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (since 2005). Alongside her strong affinity with the Viennese classical and romantic periods, she is also a prominent performer of contemporary music and of modern arrangements and improvisations. She has developed a particular fondness for crossover between classical, pop and jazz.

Ranko Markovic, artistic director of the City of Vienna's Konservatorium Wien University was born in Zagreb/Croatia. He graduated from the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Mozarteum Salzburg and completed his studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and in London. Recent lectures, masterclasses and performances include institutions such as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg and the Shanghai Conservatory.

Fernandes and Markovic have been performing as a four-hand piano duo since 2000. Their performances of transcriptions of Symphonies by Mahler and Bruckner in Vienna, London, India, Poland, Italy, and Kazakhstan received special acclaim.

"Sex, Religion, and Secular Cunning"

Wednesday, April 3, 20135 pm

Olin, Room 102

Mayanthi FernandoUniversity of California & Wesleyan University

How does the public/private distinction so central to secular-liberal democracy inflect the secular state's regulation of sex and religion? Focusing on contemporary France, this talk analyzes how political and legal practices aimed at securing secularity by rendering both sex and religion private paradoxically compel Muslim women to reveal in public the innermost details of their sexual and religious lives. That dual incitement to hide and to exhibit, and the grim consequences of exhibiting that which must be hidden, constitute "the cunning of secular power."

Mayanthi Fernando is Assistant Professor Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently a visiting professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University for Spring 2013. Her first book is Asymmetries of the Republic: Islam, Secularism, and the Future of France, forthcoming from Duke University Press.

Tankred Dorst

"This Beautiful Place," A Reading by Anne Posten

Wednesday, April 3, 20136:30–8:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema

Anne Posten’s award-winning translation of Tankred Dorst’s novella, This Beautiful Place,appeared last year from Hanging Loose Press. She lives in New York City, where she also writes fiction and teaches writing at Queens College.

Tankred Dorst and his co-author Ursula Ehler are two of the most significant contemporary German playwrights. Their work has been translated into more than 20 languages. This Beautiful Place explores the mysterious forces that drive people into catastrophic adventures against their better judgment.

Open to the Public and Free of Charge

Sponsored by: The John Ashbery Poetry Series & the German Studies Program.

Jack Ferver and QWAN Company

NOTES!!! and SWAN!!!

Wednesday, April 3, 20137 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage RightTickets: $20; $5 for the Bard communityTicket presales have SOLD OUT. Wait list tickets may be available the day of the performance—call the Box Office at 845-758-7900 for more information.

A double bill of sexy, scary, spectacular, salacious, stunning, and startling works that took the downtown New York theater scene by storm. LAB visiting artist Jack Ferver presents his QWAN (Quality Without a Name) Company in the incredibly dramatic parodied readings of two well-loved screenplays, Notes from a Scandal and Black Swan. Suitable for mature and immature audiences, 15 years and older. Presented in partnership with the Center for Curatorial Studies.Sponsored by: LIve Arts Bard.

Impermanence: Sand Mandala

Thursday, April 4, 2013 – Sunday, April 7, 20139 am – 5 pm

RKC LobbyThe Venerable Lama Tenzin Yignen, Tibetan Buddhist monk from the Dalai Lama’s home monastery Namgyal and visiting professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will install a sand mandala, a “cosmic diagram that represents the dwelling place or “celestial mansion” of the Buddha of Compassion, over the course of five days. Just when it is complete, the mandala will be ritually cut, swept together, and taken in procession down to the river in this performed lesson on impermanence.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Religion Program.

Paternalistic Helping in Young Children

Thursday, April 4, 20134:45 pm

Preston Theater

A lecture byKristina OlsonYale University

Helping others is often relatively straightforward—providing a beneficiary with something that is requested to help achieve a goal—and, as such, even infants and toddlers can do it. However, sometimes, the best way to help someone is by not providing what they request, for example, withholding cigarettes from a smoker, a phenomenon I term paternalistic helping. In this talk I present several new studies demonstrating that despite the complexity required to engage in paternalistic helping, children as young as 3 years of age will ignore an adult’s immediate request, providing instead the best means to help the adult accomplish his/her ultimate goal. I also explore children’s tendency to engage in paternalistic helping strategically, for example, depending on whether the person needing help is a good or bad person. These studies illustrate that prosocial tendencies are surprisingly sophisticated and flexible early in development.

Xander Marro

Movies and at Least One Live Soundtrack

Thursday, April 4, 20135–6:30 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center

Artist Xander Marro presents a collection of short films and videos made over a span of 15 years in Providence RI.Mostly originating on 16mm film and originally presented with live soundtrack, the program's common themes include: DIY living quarters, puppeteer frontiers, too many cats, winter, witches, wishes, girls, girls, girls, silkscreen messes, zine libraries, drum kits, fairy tales, cut paper, trinkets stored in drawers, the quest for true love, the junk of this material world, alchemy/regular chemistry, the magic of unlikely alliances, and the spirits of the night. Dina Deitsch of the DeCordova Museum writes, "Marro’s work is generally low-tech and handmade and embedded with a community of collective art-making.Typically using arcane pieces of visual culture to create strange and fantastic worlds, this almost Luddite approach presents an alternative to today’s fast-paced media-driven environments."

Men's Tennis Match

Thursday, April 4, 20136 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center CourtsThe Bard Raptors host the Colonials of Western Connecticut State University in a non-league match. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Impermanence: Sand Mandala

Thursday, April 4, 2013 – Sunday, April 7, 20139 am – 5 pm

RKC LobbyThe Venerable Lama Tenzin Yignen, Tibetan Buddhist monk from the Dalai Lama’s home monastery Namgyal and visiting professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will install a sand mandala, a “cosmic diagram that represents the dwelling place or “celestial mansion” of the Buddha of Compassion, over the course of five days. Just when it is complete, the mandala will be ritually cut, swept together, and taken in procession down to the river in this performed lesson on impermanence.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Religion Program.

Women's Lacrosse Game

Friday, April 5, 20134 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer ComplexIt's the first home Liberty League game of the season as Bard welcomes St. Lawrence University to the Ferrari field. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Jesse Zaritt and Jumatatu Poe

Work-in-Progress Showing and Discussion

Friday, April 5, 20137 pm

Fisher Center, Felicitas S. Thorne Dance StudioFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Mutually interested in ideas of queerness and heroism, Jesse Zaritt and Jumatatu Poe are working towards the creation of a performance world that explores danger coupled with fragility, chosenness as compared to loneliness, and sincerity versus hyperbole. This peformance includes moments of full nudity.

ABOUT THE ARTISTSJumatatu Poe is a Philadelphia-based artist. He teaches at Swarthmore College, is the founder of idiosynCrazy productions, and is a 2012 Pew Fellow. His choreographic work has been supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Susan Hess Modern Dance Choreographers’ Project, Community Education Center, and New York Live Arts.

Jesse Zaritt is a New York City-based artist. He has performed his solo work in Russia, Korea, Germany, New York, Japan, Mexico and Israel. His solo ‘Binding’ is the recipient of three 2010 New York Innovative Theater Awards: Outstanding Choreography, Outstanding Solo Performance, and Outstanding Performance Art Production. He currently dances for Faye Driscoll and Netta Yerushalmy.

This performance occurs as part of the partnership between Bard College and New York Live Arts.

Concert: Play/Chat @Bard

Tessa Lark, violin

Friday, April 5, 20138–10 pm

Olin HallVisiting Assistant Professor of Music Michael Bukhman presents a new concert series at Bard, showcasing today's most promising young talents both in musical performances and on-stage Q&A conversations. Sponsored by the President's Office.

Impermanence: Sand Mandala

Thursday, April 4, 2013 – Sunday, April 7, 20139 am – 5 pm

RKC LobbyThe Venerable Lama Tenzin Yignen, Tibetan Buddhist monk from the Dalai Lama’s home monastery Namgyal and visiting professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will install a sand mandala, a “cosmic diagram that represents the dwelling place or “celestial mansion” of the Buddha of Compassion, over the course of five days. Just when it is complete, the mandala will be ritually cut, swept together, and taken in procession down to the river in this performed lesson on impermanence.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Religion Program.

Baseball Doubleheader

Saturday, April 6, 20131 pm

Gruner Field, Lake Katrine, N.Y.The Bard Raptors host the Panthers of Purchase College for a pair of games beginning at 1 p.m. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Women's Lacrosse Game

Saturday, April 6, 20132 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer ComplexThe Bard Raptors host the Golden Knights of Clarkson University in a Liberty League game. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer

Saturday, April 6, 20138 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterTickets: $25, 30, 35, 40Ticket presales have SOLD OUT. The wait list will begin for this performance at 6:30 pm in the Sosnoff Theater lobby.

An intimate night of spoken word, songs, stories, chats with the audience, and more than a few surprises with author Neil Gaiman (Coraline; The Graveyard Book) and musician/cult figure Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls; Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra). Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.

Impermanence: Sand Mandala

Thursday, April 4, 2013 – Sunday, April 7, 20139 am – 5 pm

RKC LobbyThe Venerable Lama Tenzin Yignen, Tibetan Buddhist monk from the Dalai Lama’s home monastery Namgyal and visiting professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will install a sand mandala, a “cosmic diagram that represents the dwelling place or “celestial mansion” of the Buddha of Compassion, over the course of five days. Just when it is complete, the mandala will be ritually cut, swept together, and taken in procession down to the river in this performed lesson on impermanence.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Religion Program.

Faculty Lecture and Recital: Jeffrey Kahane, Piano

Sunday, April 7, 20133 pm

Olin HallBard College professor of music and the humanties and renowned pianist Jeffrey Kahane offers a lecure and concert."The Secret Listener," a lecture/recital including a performance of Robert Schumann's Phantasie, Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Impermanence: Sand Mandala Closing Ceremony

Procession to Waterfall

Monday, April 8, 201310:30 am

RKC LobbyThe Venerable Lama Tenzin Yignen, Tibetan Buddhist monk from the Dalai Lama’s home monastery Namgyal and visiting professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will install a sand mandala, a “cosmic diagram that represents the dwelling place or “celestial mansion” of the Buddha of Compassion, over the course of five days. Just when it is complete, the mandala will be ritually cut, swept together, and taken in procession down to the river in this performed lesson on impermanence.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Religion Program.

Karen Russell Reads New Work

Monday, April 8, 20132:30–4 pm

Campus Center, Weis CinemaThe Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series presents a reading by 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist and 2011 Bard Fiction Prize winner Karen Russell, author of St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Swamplandia!, and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. Introduced by Bradford Morrow, the reading will be followed by a Q&A. Free and open to the public; no tickets required.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.

CCS Bard Speakers Series : Bettina Funcke

Encounters Between Writing, Art, Philosophy, and Book Making

Monday, April 8, 20133–5 pm

CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1 A note from the editor:The exposure to different knowledges and truths produces skepsis. Skepsis, the oscillating of knowledge, and the notion of artistic research: these are the fundamental ambiguities of dOCUMENTA (13), they lie at the core of its methodology, and they are also more generally characteristic of what is alive in artistic research and radical thought, which is often transdisciplinary and self-questioning. What texts might accompany an exhibition driven by an inquiry into artistic research and its politics?

A note from the writer:What is the encounter of art and philosophy? Philosophy wants to become an art, while art desires philosophy, as with a drug. What kind of writing can document their mutual encounter? Why can these disciplines never become one?

A note from the publisher:Leopard Press is about to publish its third book. After two editions of Seth Price’s How to Disappear in America, the next how-to, Carol Bove: 2010 Manuals, is a primer on how to install Bove’s artworks.

Bettina Funcke is an independent writer and teacher who has published widely in contemporary art journals and artist monographs. She is currently a member of the Masters Program Faculty of the Critical Theory and the Arts program at the School of Visual Arts. She recently edited 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, the dOCUMENTA (13) publication series. Funcke has lectured on aesthetics, art theory, and art writing at Columbia University, Bard College, the ZKM, Karlsruhe, NYU, Hunter College, and Yale University. She is a co-founder of The Leopard Press and the Continuous Project group, and her book, Pop or Populus: Art between High and Low (Sternberg Press, 2009/ Walther König, 2007) was recently translated into English. She is currently working on an essay on dOCUMENTA (13)’s notebook series in Unpacking the Collection (Jumex, Mexico); a written response to Graham Harman’s search for the next avant-garde, to be published in Speculations, and an essay on Sarah Morris’ new film Rio.

About The Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Monday, April 8, 20134:45 pm

Doomed by Hope: Theater in Beirut, Damascus, and Cairo Today

Monday, April 8, 20136 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema

Eyad HoussamiFounding Director of Masrah Ensemble

In a world of screens and speeds so great, theaters are padlocked and threatened with demolition. Live public dialogue, as a literary and artistic practice, remains a luxury – if not an impossible cultural phenomenon – in the Arab Middle East. Decades of invasion, occupation, and internecine conflict have ruptured the intangible and tangible infrastructure requisite for theater. And yet, despite the stifling forces of dictatorship and colonialism, theater endures.

In this talk, Houssami narrates the emergence of alternative infrastructures of and for theatrical artistry in such difficult contexts and discusses the opportunities and challenges of establishing an international, multilingual theater company based in Beirut, Lebanon. The interactive presentation incorporates video, excerpts of performances and plays, and extracts from "Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre" to share a story about contemporary theater today.

Eyad Houssami makes and writes about theater. He is the founding director of Masrah Ensemble, a nonprofit theater organization in Lebanon, and the editor of English and Arabic editions of "Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre" (Pluto Press and Dar Al Adab 2012). He has performed in dead Byzantine cities in Syria; directed bilingual theater productions that mingle migrant workers with traditional audiences in Lebanon; produced a monodrama in a 13th century Damascene mansion only to be banned from performing; and his play Mama Butterfly received a staged reading at Between the Seas festival (New York 2010). He is the managing editor of Portal 9: Stories and Critical Writing about the City, a bilingual cultural journal published in Beirut. His theater research efforts have culminated in invitations to present at conferences in South Africa and Korea and publication in peer-reviewed journals. He is the recipient of Rotary, Fulbright, Prince Claus Fund, and Young Arab Theatre Fund grants. He studied theater at Yale.

Visiting Artist: Jon Kessler

Tuesday, April 9, 20135–7 pm

Fisher Studio Arts, Seminar RoomThe Web is an immersive installation that addresses the significance of the Internet and mobile devices in our lives while simultaneously examining the role of the viewer. The idea for the piece came to Jon Kessler on a New York subway ride when he realized that at least half of the riders were speaking on their cell phones, sending text messages, playing video games, or otherwise immersing themselves in their networked mobile devices.

The Web offers both an accessible and impermeable user experience, the title referencing a closed-circuit network accessed by viewers. Upon entering the exhibition, visitors are invited to download an iPhone app that feeds their images in real time onto surrounding monitors. Simultaneously pictured and reframed in Kessler’s sculpture Infinite Regress, spectators render themselves as nodes within a feedback network, the space a physical support for their virtual daydreams. Kessler’s creation broadcasts collected data, targeting viewers with images of themselves, their experience, and ultimately enticing input and generating output.

Much like the Internet itself, The Web acts as both a sentient organism and an environmental space: it facilitates the internal circuit between viewer, camera, and monitor, while simultaneously doubling as a sprawling architectural structure. While The Web conceptually foregrounds the role of networked technologies and our dependence on them, it is in many ways a tribute to direct experience. The viewer of The Web is repositioned among fellow viewers, with the feeling of sensory dislocation condensed into one geographic location—the exhibition space—and recast as a form of shared collective immersion.

The Web is a commission by the Métamatic Research Initiative, Amsterdam.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Senior Seminar.

Revolution, Rights, and Political Imagination in the Middle East and North Africa Today

Tuesday, April 9, 20137–9 pm

Olin, Room 102Tom Porteous is the deputy program director at Human Rights Watch and is based in Washington DC. He joined Human Rights Watch in 2006 as the London director responsible for communications and advocacy in the United Kingdom. Porteous has a background in journalism, diplomacy, and UN peacekeeping. In the 1980s and early 1990s he was a freelance correspondent for the Guardian newspaper, the BBC, and other media, first in Cairo and later in Berlin, Algeria, and Morocco. He worked in UN peacekeeping operations in Somalia and Liberia. He also served as conflict management adviser for Africa in the UK's Foreign Office from 2001 to 2003. Porteous studied classics at Oxford University.

He will be discussing the work of Human Rights Watch in the Middle East and North Africa in the run up to and during the uprisings and revolutions of the past two years, the role of human rights discourse in framing protesters’ demands and influencing political transitions, and the relationship between human rights, democracy and sectarian/religious politics. He will also talk about what human rights organizations can/should do in the face of the brutality of Syria’s civil war.Sponsored by: Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

Don Quixote in Music

Wednesday, April 10, 20137 pm

László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building

Exploring music on the subject of Don Quixote, the musicians will perform a costumed and staged selection of works by Maurice Ravel, Jacques Ibert, and Erich Korngold. The entire final act of Jules Massenet’s opera Don Quichotte will cap off the program. Sponsored by: Music Program.

The Economic Crisis Turns Six: What Have We Learned (Again)?

A Faculty Seminar with Olivier Giovannoni

Wednesday, April 10, 20137 pm

Olin, Room 102The immediate policy response to the 2008 crisis has been much better than that to the Great Depression. The management of the economy post-crisis, however, has been much less successful, leading to a painfully weak and historically slow recovery. As Americans suffer, economists are reminded of important economic principles. This seminar stresses two of them, with implications for policy. First, fiscal policy has been rediscovered as an effective tool in economic stabilization and its effectiveness has been demonstrated in Europe. Second, the unequal distribution of income has played a significant role in explaining the crisis and the slow recovery. So far, the acceptance of those two lessons has been limited among American policymakers and academics.

Please join us at 6:30 p.m. for a reception in the Olin Atrium.Sponsored by: Dean of the College.

Economics Seminar Series

Thursday, April 11, 20134 pm

A very distinguished speaker Nicos ChristodoulakisProfessor of Economic Analysis at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and a Research Associate at LSE, Hellenic Observatory

will give a talk on Greece and economic policiesentitledFrom “Grexit” to Growth: on fiscal multipliers and how to end recession in Greece

From 1996 to 2004 Nicos Christodoulakis was successively the Deputy Minister of Finance, the Minister for Industry and Energy and the Minister for the Economy and Finance in Greece. Nicos participated to meetings at the World Bank, at the IMF and of the G7. In 2002-2003 he was chair of the Euro Group and Econ Fin, which are composed of all finance ministers of the Eurozone / member States of the European Union. From 1999 to 2007 he was elected as a member of the Greek Parliament with the PASOK party.

During his long and distinguished academic career and public service, Nicos has published several books and articles on economic policy and economic crises. His most recent books include: “Can the Titanic be saved? From Memorandum, back to Growth” (2011) and “Economic Theories and Crises: The cycle of Rationality and Folly” (2012).Sponsored by: Economics Program.

"Why We Can't Say What Animals Think"

Thursday, April 11, 20134:45 pm

Olin, Room 201

Jake Beck Assistant Professor of Philosophy York University

The more we learn about non-human animals, the more we learn how intelligent they are. Rats and pigeons have the ability to navigate and count. Chimpanzees can create tools and read minds. It seems, in short, that non-human animals are capable of sophisticated types of thinking. Yet our attempts to say what animals think face an embarrassing difficulty: when we try to use words to characterize animal thoughts, our articulations always seem to mischaracterize them. How can this be? If animals really have thoughts, why can't anyone say what those thoughts are? In my talk, I will criticize several familiar answers to this question and then defend an alternative explanation that appeals to differences in the structure of animal thought and human language.

Medieval Vernacular Literary Theory

The Ethics of Form

Thursday, April 11, 20135 pm

Olin, Room 205

Eleanor JohnsonAssistant Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University

“Medieval Vernacular Literary Theory: the Ethics of Form” explores the impact of Boethius' “prosimetric practice,” and his theory of how it works on his readers ethically, as a test case for thinking through what it would mean to study a literary theory-in-practice that emerges in late medieval English literature. This talk will analyze how and why Boethius writes his Consolationof Philosophy in prosimetrum, and will then examine the consequences of that choice in some of the experimental poetry of the late fourteenth century, including that of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Eleanor Johnson specializes in late medieval English prose and poetry, medieval poetics and philosophy, law and literature in the Middle Ages, early autobiography, and vernacular theology. Her first book, Practicing Literary Theory in the Late Middle Ages: The Ethics of Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve, is forthcoming in the spring of 2013 from University of Chicago Press. She is currently working on a new book about the aesthetics of contemplation in late Middle English mysticism and drama. Her recent essay publications include an article on time and affect in The Cloud of Unknowing (the Journal for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2011), "The Poetics of Waste" (PMLA, 2012), an essay on trespass and contract law in Troilus and Criseyde in the New Chaucer Handbook (Oxford UP, 2013), and a new edition and facing-page translation of the fourteenth-century poem Wynnere and Wastoure (Broadview Press, 2012). Two collections of her poetry, The Dwell (Scrambler Books) and Her Many Feathered Bones (Achiote Press) were published in 2009 and 2010.

Mosquito Wars in Italy: Malaria as an Instrument of Terror in World War II

Presented by Dr. Frank Snowden

Thursday, April 11, 20135 pm

Hegeman 102

Dr. Frank Snowden is a Professor of History and Professor of the History of Medicine with appointments in both the Department of History at Yale University and the Yale School of Medicine. His research interests include Italian history, European social and political history, and the history of medicine. Professor Snowden has most recently been focusing on malaria, a parasitic disease that causes one of the most significant public health problems worldwide. In his latest book, The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962, Professor Snowden examines malariology in Italy with particular emphasis on World War II. In this talk, Professor Snowden will present the biological, political and sociological factors that led to the use of malaria as a biological weapon by Nazis in Italy.

The Bakkhai (The Bacchae)

By Euripides

Thursday, April 11, 20137 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterThursday, April 11 at 7 pmFriday, April 12 at 7 pmSaturday, April 13 at 7 pmSunday, April 14 at 2 and 7 pm

Tickets: $15; Free for the Bard students (reservations via the Box Office)

Directed by Lileana Blain-CruzTranslated by Ned Moore ’13

The god Dionysus returns to Thebes to prove his divinity and punish the city's unbelievers. This student production is presented in partnership with Bard's Classical Studies Program. Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.

Etgar Keret at Bard: Film Screening of Jellyfish

Friday, April 12, 20134 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema

Etgar Keret is one of the most popular and influential writers in Israel today. Keret's work has been published in twenty-two languages and adapted in over forty films. His directorial debut, Jellyfish, won the coveted Camera d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2007.

Copies of Keret's latest work, Suddenly, A Knock on the Door, are available at the Bard bookstore.

The Bakkhai (The Bacchae)

By Euripides

Friday, April 12, 20137 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterThursday, April 11 at 7 pmFriday, April 12 at 7 pmSaturday, April 13 at 7 pmSunday, April 14 at 2 and 7 pm

Tickets: $15; Free for the Bard students (reservations via the Box Office)

Directed by Lileana Blain-CruzTranslated by Ned Moore ’13

The god Dionysus returns to Thebes to prove his divinity and punish the city's unbelievers. This student production is presented in partnership with Bard's Classical Studies Program. Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.

So Percussion and Students Concert

Friday, April 12, 20138 pm

Sō Percussion and the Bard College Conservatory of Music Percussion Program present their second annual spring concert at the Fisher Center. Works include music by Steve Reich, Lou Harrison, Paul Lansky, and other recent percussion masterworks.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Fisher Center.

Farm Fest Updated

Saturday, April 13, 201312–9 pm

Ludlow LawnDue to anticipated rain, Farm Fest has been moved from Friday to Saturday, April 13, from noon to 9 pm. Food will be served from noon to 7 pm and Delicate Steve headlines at 1 pm!

Farm Fest is an all-day music festival to raise money for the Bard Farm. This year Farm Fest has over 15 bands, DELICATE STEVE headlining and naturally great food!

This is the Bard Farm's second growing season and this time around Farm Fest is raising money to build a barn near the farm. This barn will help the farm expand production, be open as an outdoor classroom/student space and store our tools and supplies.

Come out for a wonderful day of tunes and grab a plate!!

- FOOD -

by Joseph Baldwin "Earth to Table"Serving: noon - 7pm$8 gets you a food band

Men's and Women's Tennis Matches

Saturday, April 13, 201312:30 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center CourtsThey're the last home matches of the season as the Bard Raptors host the Tigers of Rochester Institute of Technology in a Liberty League contest. Come out and support the Raptors on Senior Day!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Degree Recital: Chi-Hui Yen, Piano

Saturday, April 13, 20133 pm

Olin HallBorn in 1991 in Taipei, Taiwan, Chi-Hui Yen began playing the piano at the age of four. Her teachers included Rolf-Peter Wille and Ming-Hui Lin. Currently she is in her fifth year studying with Melvin Chen and Peter Serkin at The Bard College Conservatory of Music. She is also pursuing a B.A degree in Economics at Bard College. In 2002, as the youngest competitor that year, she won the first prize in the Taipei International Chopin Piano Competition. In the same year, she was awarded the first prize in the Mauron Paolo Monopli International Piano Competition. The following year, she made her solo debut at Taipei Zhongshan Hall after winning the Young Artists Concerto Competition in 2002.

In 2009, Yen won The Bard College Conservatory of Music's Annual Concerto Competition with her performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.1 and performed on two subscription concerts with American Symphony Orchestra in the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in fall 2010. Last summer, she was selected to participate in the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. After the festival, she went on a study abroad program in Central European University taking grad-level coursework and Liszt Academy of Music studying with Andras Kemenes in Hungary. The master classes she has participated in include those taught by Stephen Kovacevich, Ferenc Rados, Andras Kemenes, Piotr Paleczny, Chen Pi-Hsien, Ning An, Richard Goode, Wen-Yu Shen, Martin Vojtisek, and Francesco Monopoli.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

New Music: The Bakkai by Dylan Mattingly

A new musical setting of the choruses from the Euripides play by composer Dylan Mattingly

Saturday, April 13, 20134–5 pm

Chapel of the Holy InnocentsThe Bakkhai is a thirty-minute musical composition for voices and instrumental ensemble, inspired by composer Dylan Mattingly's careful study of the lyrics and rhythmic structure of the choral odes in Euripedes' terrifying final play, The Bakkhai (or, The Bacchae). Recreating aspects of Euripides' tragedy in this new work, Mattingly has based the rhythm of his Bakkhai on the complex patterns of long and short syllables that constitute the meter of Euripides' choral odes. The piece is written in "just intonation," the method of tuning that would have been used in fifth century Athens. Unlike "equal temperament," the dominant system of tuning in western music over the last few centuries, "just intonation" relies on the mathematics of the natural world to derive pitches from their organic relation to other pitches. For this piece, Mattingly has re-tuned a piano using just intonation and has specified that the other instruments be tuned to accord with the piano. The Bakkhai is scored for four voices, two oboes, cello, bass, re-tuned piano, and two percussionists. The lyrics comprise all the lines of the seven choruses of Euripedes' play, sung in ancient Greek.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.

Tickets: $15; Free for the Bard students (reservations via the Box Office)

Directed by Lileana Blain-CruzTranslated by Ned Moore ’13

The god Dionysus returns to Thebes to prove his divinity and punish the city's unbelievers. This student production is presented in partnership with Bard's Classical Studies Program. Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.

Degree Recital: David A. Nagy, Bassoon

Saturday, April 13, 20138 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building

David Adam Nagy, bassoon, hails from Debrecen, Hungary. A top-ranking graduate of the Zoltán Kodály High School of Music, Nagy was admitted as a Bitó Scholar to the unique double degree program of the Bard College Conservatory of Music where his studies focus on the bassoon and Japanese language and literature. He is a student of Patricia Rogers and Marc Goldberg and studies as well with cellist Luis Garcia-Renart. Over the past 10 years Nagy has won numerous competitions and was also a recipient of the Kodály Prize for his excellence in music and academics. In August 2012, he was named a Distinguished Visitor of Táchira County in Venezuela while was a teaching artist at the inaugural San Juan de Colòn Music Festival. Nagy recently appeared as a soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra lead by music director Leon Botstein and on the Bard Conservatory's first European Chamber Music Tour. He recently took on the role as director of development for Contemporaneous. This year, Nagy will spend his third summer at the Castleton Festival playing operas and symphonic programs under the baton of Lorin Maazel.

The Week of the Young Child Art Exhibit

Sponsored by the children of the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and the Bard Community Children's Center

Sunday, April 14, 2013 – Saturday, April 20, 20138 am – 8 pm

Charles P. Stevenson Jr. LibraryAn annual exhibit of artwork by the children of the Bard Nursery School and Children's Center in celebration of the Week of the Young Child. Please remember to sign the guest book!For more information, call 845-758-7480, or e-mail korn@bard.edu.

Baseball Doubleheader

Sunday, April 14, 20131 pm

Gruner Field, Lake Katrine, N.Y.The Bard Raptors host the Knights of Mount Saint Mary College for a pair of games beginning at 1 p.m. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

The god Dionysus returns to Thebes to prove his divinity and punish the city's unbelievers. This student production is presented in partnership with Bard's Classical Studies Program.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.

Panel Discussion: "Euripides' The Bakkhai: Play and Performance"

Sunday, April 14, 20134–5:30 pm

Fisher CenterA discussion by four experts of Euripides' tragedy The Bakkhai (The Bacchae), with special attention to the unique features of the current production at Bard's Fisher Center. Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.

The Bakkhai (The Bacchae)

By Euripides

Sunday, April 14, 20137 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterThursday, April 11 at 7 pmFriday, April 12 at 7 pmSaturday, April 13 at 7 pmSunday, April 14 at 2 and 7 pm

Tickets: $15; Free for the Bard students (reservations via the Box Office)

Directed by Lileana Blain-CruzTranslated by Ned Moore ’13

The god Dionysus returns to Thebes to prove his divinity and punish the city's unbelievers. This student production is presented in partnership with Bard's Classical Studies Program. Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.

CCS Bard Speakers Series : Stuart Comer

Monday, April 15, 20133–5 pm

CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1Stuart Comer is Curator: Film at Tate Modern. He oversees film and video work for the Tate Collection and Displays, was co-curator of the opening programme for The Tanks at Tate Modern, and organizes an extensive programme of screenings, performances and events. He is co-curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art 2014 Biennial. He has contributed to numerous periodicals, including Artforum, Frieze, Afterall, Mousse, Parkett and Art Review. He is editor of Film and Video Art (Tate Publishing, 2009) and has contributed essays to several publications on artists including Tom Burr, Andrea Fraser, David Lamelas, Sharon Lockhart, Mark Morrisroe, Bik Van Der Pol and Gillian Wearing. He was co-curator of the 2007 Lyon Biennial. Other recent freelance curatorial projects include 'Andy, as you know I am writing a movie...' at Beirut Art Center, ‘The Young and Evil’ for tank.tv, 'An American Family' at Kunstverein Munich and CASCO, Utrecht; 'America's Most Wanted' for The Artists' Cinema at Frieze Art Fair, London; and 'Double Lunar Trouble' at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Comer has participated in symposia, talks and events at numerous international venues. He has been a member of juries for CPH:DOX 2012, the 2010 Venice Film Festival, the 2006 BFI Sutherland Trophy at the The Times BFI 50th London Film Festival, the International Jury for the Oberhausen 52nd International Short Film Festival 2006, the inaugural Derek Jarman Award for artists' film and video in 2008, and the inaugural Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize in 2009.

About The Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Etgar Keret at Bard: In Conversation

Monday, April 15, 20134 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema

4:00-4:45 pmJewish Stories and Israeli Culture Today4:45-5:30 pmWriting and Film Making: Creativity and Play6:30 pmKeret reads from his work, followed by Q&A

Etgar Keret is one of the most popular and influential writers in Israel today. Keret's work has been published in twenty-two languages and adapted in over forty films. His directorial debut, Jellyfish, won the coveted Camera d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2007.

Copies of Keret's latest work, Suddenly, A Knock on the Door, are available at the Bard bookstore.

A Reading by Acclaimed Israeli Author Etgar Keret

Monday, April 15, 20136:30 pm

Acclaimed Israeli author and filmmaker Etgar Keret will read selections from his recent work Suddenly, a Knock on the Door, as well as from The Girl on the Fridge, which contains his earliest stories. “Keret can do more with six . . . paragraphs than most writers can with 600 pages,”wrotePeople magazine.The reading takes place in Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center; a question-and-answer session and book signing will follow. Admission is free and no reservations are necessary.

Lecture by Arendt Center Fellow, Grace Hunt

Tuesday, April 16, 201312 pm

Arendt Center

Because of truth and reconciliation commissions characteristic of transitional justice, forgiveness has emerged as a political and legal aspiration. In cases where crimes against humanity threaten to extinguish human plurality and dignity, over and over political and social leaders are advocating forgiveness over legal justice. Seen as a willingness to continually participate in an imperfect world with civility, those willing to forgive demonstrate the ability to begin again despitethe social facts ofmoral injury and misrecognition. Forgiving victims who are able to respond creatively rather than vindictively are said to escape the vicious cycle of violence and exemplify their moral agency.

Hunt explores this celebration of political forgiveness in order to ask two questions: First, what does forgiveness really do as a political tool? Second, is Arendt's forgiveness as presented in The Human Condition amenable to the political work forgiveness is said to do in the aftermath of atrocity? Hunt suggests that Arendt understands forgiveness as a cure for the irreversibility of action, not of violence.

Protest Movements in Russia, 2011-2012: Who, Why, and What's the Result

A talk by Artemy Magun

Tuesday, April 16, 20137–8:30 pm

Olin, Room 204Professor Artemy Magun, Head of International Relations, Political Science, and the Human Rights Program at Smolny Colege and a Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the European University at Saint Petersburg, discusses the role of populism in contemporary Russian protest movementsSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Institute for International Liberal Education; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program; Smolny College.

Bollywood Film Festival: Dabangg

Tuesday, April 16, 20137 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

Dabangg is a 2010 Indian action film, directed by Abhinav Kashyap and produced by Arbaaz Khan under the Arbaaz Khan Productions. The lead actors include Arbaaz’s elder brother Salman Khan and Sonakshi Sinha.

Wednesday, April 17, 20137 pm

Levy Economics Institute's 22nd Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference in New York City

Building a Financial Structure for a More Stable and Equitable Economy

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 – Friday, April 19, 20138 am – 8 pm

New York CityThe conference will be held at the Ford Foundation Headquarters at 320 East 43rd Street in New York City. Pre-registration is requested. Visit www.levyinstitute.org or call 845-758-7700 for more information.

Hosted by the Levy Economics Institute with support from the Ford Foundation.

All of a Sudden

By Jack Ferver

Wednesday, April 17, 20136:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterTickets: Free, reservations required

Collaboration with Joshua Lubin-LevySet by Marc SwansonMusic by Roarke MenziesCostumes by Reid Bartelme

All of a Sudden is a new collaboration between choreographer Jack Ferver and writer/performer Joshua Lubin-Levy. This work-in-progress performance is based on the film version of Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly Last Summer, about a young girl driven insane after witnessing her cousin’s murder and the doctor who attempts to help her. Set against the film’s backdrop, the performance explores the intersection of caring, loving, and violent dyads (such as therapist/patient and artist/dramaturge), exploding the moment when we are so overwhelmed we must ask for help—where reality becomes so heavy we bring in others (real or imaginary) to help shoulder the burden.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.

Wednesday, April 17, 20137–9 pm

A National Conversation on Democracy and Climate

Presented by C2C Fellows

Wednesday, April 17, 20137–10 pm

Olin Hall

C2C Fellows and Bard CEP will host a national screeningof the documentary film "The Island President" on Wednesday evening, April 17th at 7pm. Director Jon Shenk’s The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the survival of his country and his people. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable.

Following the screening at 9:00pm EST we will be joined by the award winning director, Jon Shenk, along with former UN Deputy Permanent Representative to the Maldives, Thilmeeza Hussain, and also Executive Director and Co-Founder of 350.org, May Boeve, to discuss with a national audience the urgency of action on climate change from an international perspective.

Please join us, and more than 100 campuses around the country, in the Olin Hall. All are welcome.

Levy Economics Institute's 22nd Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference in New York City

Building a Financial Structure for a More Stable and Equitable Economy

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 – Friday, April 19, 20138 am – 8 pm

New York CityThe conference will be held at the Ford Foundation Headquarters at 320 East 43rd Street in New York City. Pre-registration is requested. Visit www.levyinstitute.org or call 845-758-7700 for more information.

Hosted by the Levy Economics Institute with support from the Ford Foundation.

Thursday, April 18, 201312 pm

On Square-Roots of Nothing, Supersymmetry and Error-Correcting Encryption

Thursday, April 18, 20134:40 pm

Hegeman 308

A lecture by Tristan HübschProfessor of Physics, Howard University

Symmetry is recognized throughout nature and our descriptions of it. Mathematically, it requires that varying some quantity results in no observable change: rotate a well-formed clover leaf by 120 degrees, and it looks the same. Supersymmetry is such a transformation, the only one known to guarantee our Universe from decaying into another, and then another, and again, and again. Yet, this transformation maps physical quantities measured in terms of ordinary numbers into quantities measured in numbers that square to zero. The study of this supersymmetry being underway for about half a century, it is surprising that a complete (so-called off-shell) representation theory is only now emerging---and it includes certain binary encryption codes, of the kind used by your browser to insure that the downloaded page is a faithful copy of the original on a web-site! This fascinating syzygy of diverse ideas opens doors to new discoveries in physics, mathematics and encryption alike.

This talk does not assume any advanced background in mathematics or physics.Refreshments will be served afterwards in the Albee Math Lounge.

Translating Revolution: Hannah Arendt and Arab Political Culture

Thursday, April 18, 20135 pm

Olin, Room 205

Jens Hanssen University of Toronto

Hannah Arendt has famously lamented in “On Revolution” (1963) that the revolutionary tradition of the United States was lost on the “‘revolutionary’ countries in the East” and the United States alike. The result, she argued, has “boomeranged upon the foreign policy of the United States, which begins to pay an exorbitant price for world-wide ignorance and for [American] oblivion.” At the same time, she worried that “Western civilization has its last chance of survival in an Atlantic community” and admitted that “American power and prestige were used and misused to support obsolete and corrupt political regimes that long since had become objects of hatred and contempt among their own citizens.” Still, On Revolution has received more attention in Arab translation circles than any of her other works – including her Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) which overshadowed On Revolution in the West. In the context of a wider Arab reception history of Arendt, this paper examines two Arabic translations – Khayri Hammad’s critical translation Ra’i fi al-thawrāt (1964, republished in excerpt in Cairo, 2012) and Abdel-Rahman Bushnaq’s Franklin Foundation-endorsed translation of her favorite book, Between Past and Future, in 1974 – in order to discuss ‘Lesser-evilism’, Arab authoritarianism and the current uprisings against both.

Jens Hanssen is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean history at the University of Toronto. His book publications include “Fin de Siècle Beirut” (Oxford, 2005) and two co-edited volumes: “Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire,” (Beirut, 2002); and “History, Space and Social Conflict in Beirut” (Beirut, 2005). He has recently published in “The New Cambridge History of Islam” (2010), in the “International Journal of Middle East Studies” (2011), “Critical Inquiry” (2012) and an article “Reading Arendt in the Middle East” (http://www.perspectivia.net/content/publikationen/orient-institut-studies/1-2012/hanssen_hannah-arendt). He is co-editing the “OUP Handbook of Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African History” and “Arabic Thought Beyond the Liberal Age.” During his visit to Baghdad in June 2003, he filmed a short documentary (posted on youtube.com) on academic life in Iraq after the U.S. invasion. He is currently conducting research on intersections between German-Jewish and Arab intellectual histories. He also investigates the legacy of the 19th-century Arabic revival and reform movement on contemporary political developments.

Jens Hanssen Lecture

Translating Revolution: Hannah Arendt and Arab Political Culture

Thursday, April 18, 20135 pm

Olin, Room 205Hannah Arendt has famously lamented in On Revolution (1963) that the revolutionary tradition of the United States was lost on the “‘revolutionary’ countries in the East” and the United States alike. On Revolution has received more attention in Arab translation circles than any of her other works – including her Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) which overshadowed On Revolution in the West. In the context of a wider Arab reception history of Arendt, this paper examines two Arabic translations - Khayri Hammad’s critical translation Ra’i fi al-thawrāt (1964, republished in excerpt in Cairo, 2012) and Abdel-Rahman Bushnaq's Franklin Foundation-endorsed translation of her favorite book, Between Past and Future, in 1974 - in order to discuss 'Lesser-evilism', Arab authoritarianism and the current uprisings against both.

Jens Hanssen is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean history at the University of Toronto. His book publications include “Fin de Siècle Beirut” (Oxford, 2005) and two co-edited volumes: “Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire,” (Beirut, 2002); and “History, Space and Social Conflict in Beirut” (Beirut, 2005). He has recently published in “The New Cambridge History of Islam” (2010), in the “International Journal of Middle East Studies” (2011), “Critical Inquiry” (2012) and an article “Reading Arendt in the Middle East” (http://www.perspectivia.net/content/publikationen/orient-institut-studies/1-2012/hanssen_hannah-arendt). He is co-editing the “OUP Handbook of Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African History” and “Arabic Thought Beyond the Liberal Age.” During his visit to Baghdad in June 2003, he filmed a short documentary (posted on youtube.com) on academic life in Iraq after the U.S. invasion. He is currently conducting research on intersections between German-Jewish and Arab intellectual histories. He also investigates the legacy of the 19th-century Arabic revival and reform movement on contemporary political developments.

The Exquisite Corpse Project

Thursday, April 18, 20139–11 pm

Campus Center, Weis CinemaBack in the mid-2000s, a group of Bard students formed a comedy group called Olde English. Olde English made the campus laugh for at least five years.

Now Olde English are coming back to campus to show their first movie, The Exquisite Corpse Project.

The Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs invites you to join Ben Popik '05 and Raphael Bob-Waksberg '06 in the Weis Cinema in the Campus Center on Thursday, April 18 at 9pm for a special Bard showing of their award-winning new movie.

Levy Economics Institute's 22nd Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference in New York City

Building a Financial Structure for a More Stable and Equitable Economy

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 – Friday, April 19, 20138 am – 8 pm

New York CityThe conference will be held at the Ford Foundation Headquarters at 320 East 43rd Street in New York City. Pre-registration is requested. Visit www.levyinstitute.org or call 845-758-7700 for more information.

Hosted by the Levy Economics Institute with support from the Ford Foundation.

New Kinds of Attention: Teaching with Writing in a Digital Age

Friday, April 19, 20139 am – 5 pm

Olin Hall"My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet ski." —Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains,” the Atlantic, July/August, 2008

Like it or not, we have all become digital citizens—spending much of our days navigating the Internet, World Wide Web, text messages, e-mails, and tweets. But we’re still learning how to integrate this new flood of information into our lives. As teachers in the classroom, how should we think about the student who has five windows open on her screen while writing a paper? What kind of attention is this—and can it lead to the deep engagement we’d like our students to express through their work? When multiple streams of information are available at the click of a mouse, how does this change the way students write, think, and develop their own ideas? What kind of attention are we now dealing with as teachers and students?

Cognitive science has shown that we learn to pay attention differently depending on the world we’re exposed to; and that what we pay attention to actually changes our brains. Our use of the Internet has changed how we focus. At the click of a mouse we can immerse ourselves in completely different worlds—move from the latest research on an infectious disease, to the causes of World War I, and a YouTube video of a recently attended party. In this conference, we explore how teaching might respond to these new brains and modes of focusing. If we see students as distracted, how might we use writing to help them focus on the skills they’ll need beyond school? If these new modes are an opportunity, how can writing support students as they develop novel ways of thinking and being in the world? And what can we learn about this new world from our students, who are more likely to be born into it than their teachers?

The conference consists of small group workshops, led by Institute faculty associates, and a plenary session featuring a keynote speaker and discussion.Sponsored by: Institute for Writing and Thinking.

In Conversation: Willie Birch and Robin Wallis Atkinson

Friday, April 19, 20134–5 pm

CCS Bard Video GalleryAs a supplemental event for the master's thesis exhibition CROSS//ROADS, the artist Willie Birch will sit down with curator Robin Wallis Atkinson to discuss the inspiration for the new works from his on-going Seventh Ward Series. Drawing his inspiration from the built environment of his neighborhood in New Orleans, Birch mixes symbolism, metaphor, and abstraction to create visually and conceptually dense images. The artist will discuss the construction of these images along with the social and historical background for his practice, as well as the inspiration for the artworks currently on view in the Hessel Museum of Art. The artist and curator, in a collaboration spanning three years, will address how the artistic and the curatorial can act as sources of both inspiration and friction, and how these tensions develop and enrich over time.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

American Symphony OrchestraConcert Three

Friday, April 19, 20138 pm

Founded in 1962 by legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, the American Symphony Orchestra continues its mission to demystify orchestral music, and make it accessible and affordable to everyone. Under music director Leon Botstein, the ASO has pioneered what the Wall Street Journal called “a new concept in orchestras,” presenting concerts in the Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall curated around various themes from the visual arts, literature, politics, and history, and unearthing rarely performed masterworks for well-deserved revival. The ASO is the resident orchestra of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, where it appears in a winter subscription series as well as Bard’s annual SummerScape and the Bard Music Festival.

In addition to many albums released on the Telarc, New World, Bridge, Koch, and Vanguard labels, live performances by the American Symphony are now available for digital download. In many cases, these are the only existing recordings of some of the rare works that have been rediscovered in ASO performances.

Featured soloists include Peter Blaga, tuba; David Nagy, bassoon; and Renata Rakova, clarinet—winners of the 2011 Bard College Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition.

Open House for Accepted Students 2013

Saturday, April 20, 20139 am

Locations throughout the campusAccepted students and their families are invited to an open house at the College on Saturday, April 20. Check-in begins at 9 a.m.

The day includes campus tours; panel discussions on academic and co-curricular life; a Q&A session with President Leon Botstein; an information session on civic engagement opportunities; a student services and clubs fair; and opportunities to meet with students, faculty, and staff. Administrative offices will be open throughout the day.

For further information, please call the Admission Office at 845-758-7472.

Women's Lacrosse Game

Saturday, April 20, 20132 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer ComplexThe Bard Raptors host the Herons of William Smith College in their final home match of the season. Come out and support the Raptors on Senior Day!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Eighth Annual Bard Comic Book Symposium

Saturday, April 20, 20134 pm

Olin, Room 102Join us for the Eighth Annual Bard Comic Book Symposium! Listen to student academic and creative presentations on the art and industry of comics. This year we are pleased to present special guest Walt Simonson, seminal artist/writer for marvel’s Thor. Admission is free. Refreshments offered. Everyone is welcome!For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mv7389@bard.edu.

Senior Project Dolphin Installation

Date Changed Due to Rain

Saturday, April 20, 20136 pm

Ludlow LawnOpening ceremony of the Dolphin Installation, a senior project about dolphin advocacy. Speech by the New York Director of the Humane Society, Brian Shapiro, and music by Finn Shannihan. Free food.

Music in the Holocaust, Jewish Identity and Cosmopolitanism

Part Two: Music of Warsaw, Lodz and other Eastern Ghettoes

Saturday, April 20, 20137 pm

Olin HallThe Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College is presenting a special series of concerts titled, “Music in the Holocaust, Jewish Identity and Cosmopolitanism,” featuring music composed and performed by Jewish prisoners in Nazi territories during World War II. Three concerts will feature an introduction by a noted scholar in the field placing the music within the context of the larger social, historical and political background out of which it developed.

These events are made possible through the generosity of a grant from the Bertha Effron Fund of the Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley.

The second concert in the series, “Nationalism, Continuity, and Creativity: Music of Warsaw, Lodz and other Eastern Ghettoes,” will be performed on Saturday, April 20, and will include Robert Cuckson’s 2003 song cycle, “Der Gayst funem Shturem,” (The Spirit of the Storm) with text taken from the poems of ghetto survivor Binem Heller. It will be performed in Yiddish by mezzo-soprano Malena Dayen, with piano accompaniment by David Rosenmeyer, the couple for whom Cuckson composed this cycle. The Warsaw Ghetto song cycle is informed by the rift within Jewry itself between Western and Eastern European models of Jewish accommodation and Jewish being in the modern world, a recurrent theme in Arendt’s Jewish writings. The musical performances are all, each in their own way, an expression of this internal struggle within the largerJewish community during the Holocaust. There will be a panel discussion with Cuckson and others immediately following the performance.

American Symphony OrchestraConcert Three

Saturday, April 20, 20138 pm

Founded in 1962 by legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, the American Symphony Orchestra continues its mission to demystify orchestral music, and make it accessible and affordable to everyone. Under music director Leon Botstein, the ASO has pioneered what the Wall Street Journal called “a new concept in orchestras,” presenting concerts in the Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall curated around various themes from the visual arts, literature, politics, and history, and unearthing rarely performed masterworks for well-deserved revival. The ASO is the resident orchestra of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, where it appears in a winter subscription series as well as Bard’s annual SummerScape and the Bard Music Festival.

In addition to many albums released on the Telarc, New World, Bridge, Koch, and Vanguard labels, live performances by the American Symphony are now available for digital download. In many cases, these are the only existing recordings of some of the rare works that have been rediscovered in ASO performances.

Featured soloists include Peter Blaga, tuba; David Nagy, bassoon; and Renata Rakova, clarinet—winners of the 2011 Bard College Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition.

CCS Bard Speakers Series

Bruce Hainley in conversation with Tirdad Zolghadr

Monday, April 22, 20133–5 pm

CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1Bruce Hainley is a writer who lives in Los Angeles. A contributing editor of Artforum, he is the author of No Biggie, Foul Mouth, and, with John Waters, Art—A Sex Book. The fifth issue of Pep Talk is dedicated to his writing. His study of Sturtevant, Under the Sign of [ sic ], will be published by Semiotext(e) later this year. He teaches at Art Center College of Design.

About The Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Lecture by Tejaswini Ganti

Monday, April 22, 20134:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumTejaswini Ganti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and its Program in Culture & Media at New York University. A visual anthropologist specializing in South Asia, her research interests include Indian cinema, anthropology of media, production cultures, visual culture, cultural policy, nationalism, neoliberalism, capitalism, ideologies of development and theories of globalization. She has been conducting ethnographic research about the social world and filmmaking practices of the Hindi film industry since 1996 and is the author of Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry (Duke University Press 2012) and Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema (Routledge 2004; 2nd edition, 2013).

Patterns of Decline in Avian Scavengers

Tuesday, April 23, 201312:30–1:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center 111

Vultures are the most rapidly declining group of birds in the world. In East Africa, some species of vulture have declined dramatically but other scavenging birds are actually increasing. Research on habitat use and competition between avian scavengers has helped to illuminate why some species are more susceptible to extinction and what can be done about it. In addition to a research talk, I will also discuss ecosystem services and run a short activity looking at experimental design.

Dr. Kendall is in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University. For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.

Philip Fedchin, Senior Lecturer, Smolny College

On Icons and Sages: Walter Pater in Russia

Tuesday, April 23, 20135 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Room 102On Icons and Sages: Walter Pater in Russia

Walter Pater (1839 – 1894), Victorian writer, literary scholar, and art critic, is the central name of British Aestheticism. Pater has recently gone through a new phase of appreciation in Russia, with new editions of his Renaissance and an influx of scholarly publications on his oeuvre appearing in quick succession. What is the relevance of this Victorian sage for the contemporary Russian culture? Tracing the history of Pater's reception in Russia, we move from the early fin-de-siècle euphoria to the moment of deeper recognition of and engagement with Pater’s ideas in the 1910-20s, in order to compare their total rejection in the Soviet era and their re-evaluation in the Post-Soviet period. Pavel Muratov (1881 – 1950), a Russian critic, historian, and Pater scholar, well known for his seminal work on icons, serves as a key figure by which to re-evaluate Russia’s indebtedness to Pater and Victorian aestheticism.

Baseball Doubleheader

Tuesday, April 23, 20136 pm

Gruner Field, Lake Katrine, N.Y.The Bard Raptors host the Greyhounds of John Jay College of Criminal Justice for a doubleheader, the last home games of the season. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Settler Appropriations in Palestine/Israel

Trauma, Human Rights and Displacement

Tuesday, April 23, 20137–9 pm

Olin, Room 102Settlerness—the conception, practice and production of the settler self—has been subject to several transformations in the history of Palestine/Israel. During the recent decades, new forms of representation of settlerness have emerged in this space of colonial relationships. Human rights, trauma, and displacement are acquiring new meanings in settler practices and discourses. Their appropriation by various actors of the Israeli settler formation opens to new analytical and theoretical refinements in the understanding of the existing relationships between Israelis and Palestinians.

Nicola Perugini is an anthropologist. He teaches at Al Quds BARD Honors College (Jerusalem) and is currently a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. His work focuses on colonialism, space and law in Morocco and Palestine; asylum seekers and the politics of migrations in Italy; embedded anthropology in war contexts. He is writing a book on settler deployments of human rights, trauma and displacement discourses in Palestine/Israel. Sponsored by: Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project.

China: Then and Now Ambassador Nicholas Platt

Wednesday, April 24, 20136 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema

Nicholas Platt, long-time China specialist, three-time U.S. Ambassador (Pakistan, Zambia and the Philippines), and author of the published memoir China Boys, will share his experiences and insights gained from a long and distinguished career in the diplomatic service and as President of the Asia Society in New York for 12 years.

As a young diplomatic officer in the early 1960s, when Communist China was firmly closed to the west, Nicholas Platt took the unusual step of studying Mandarin. This put him in a key position when U.S. relations to China suddenly opened. Platt was one of the State Department officials chosen to accompany President Nixon on his historic visit to China in 1972. The following year he and his family were stationed in Beijing with the opening of a U.S. Liaison Office, the forerunner of the U.S. Embassy in the PRC.

Showing some of his 'home movie' footage of the Nixon trip, and film of family and diplomatic events, and reading from his memoir, Ambassador Platt will talk about life in China. As a former president of the Asia society, which oversees numerous contacts and exchanges with China, and a frequent visitor and lecturer in the PRC, Nicholas Platt is in a unique position to compare those early days of diplomatic contact to relations with the West today, as China now emerges as a major player on the world stage and an economic power house.

Public Debate: Marriage Equality

Does marriage equality reinforce a conservative institution or support social change?

Wednesday, April 24, 20137–8:30 pm

Olin, Room 102In the last few weeks we have seen everyone change their facebook pictures to show their support for the human rights (marriage equality) campaign. But is "marriage" really the goal we want to be striving for in order to achieve social change? Do "equality" movements for specific groups risk marginalizing others? Yes? No? Let's debate. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

Permaculture for Home and Garden

Discussing organic gardening, building with local natural materials, ecological lawn, meadow, stream and wetland care, orchards, composting and more

Thursday, April 25, 20133–6 pm

Community Garden

This Thursdaywe have a special guest, Permaculturist Andrew Faust coming to share his knowledge in the community garden from 3-6.

He will be talking about Permaculture for Home and Garden. In this workshop, we will learn Permaculture principles as applied in temperate homes and gardens. We will discuss organic gardening, building with local natural materials, ecological lawn, meadow, stream and wetland care, orchards, composting, off-the-grid water systems, and domestic and wild animal management.

Bring questions about your garden and home and be prepared to learn about ideas that can improve your quality of life, simplify your needs, and increase your family time by cooperating with ecological processes to create abundance and diversity.

Auditions for Feature Film The Fly Room

Seeking extras and actors for speaking rolesThe Fly Room to film at Bard on June 4-7

Thursday, April 25, 20134–8 pm

Olin 304

Bard alumnus Alexis Gambis ('03) is bringing a very exciting project to Bard this spring. This project is the feature film The Fly Room, major scenes of which will be shot at Bard during the first week of June. The film will take viewers back to the 1920s, to a then-unknown, cramped laboratory where three scientists scrutinize hundreds of fruit flies in the hope of uncovering the first discoveries of modern genetics. Into this room steps Betsy, the nine year-old daughter of one of the researchers—the soon-to-be famous geneticist Calvin Bridges. Surrounded by hundreds of jars, hanging bananas, and drawings of Drosophila, Betsy struggles to understand how her father spends so much of his life in this place. Journeying into his world, she begins to understand what secrets the flies may hold. But it soon becomes clear that her father is hiding secrets of his own.

Most of the film will be shot in Brooklyn in an exact replica of the Fly Room (which will eventually open to the public as an exhibit sponsored by Science and Nature magazines), but several on-location sequences will be filmed here. Of those, two of the biggest ones will be a drawing class and a party at Manor where Betsy, as a college student in 1939, learns of her father's death from an article in the New York Times. The party scene in particular should be fun, since it will be surrealist-themed, with wild period costumes and Dalí/Duchamp-esque production design involving bicycles hanging from the ceiling.

I'm interning on the production and have been instructed to look for people who would be interested in getting involved. Filming at Bard will take place on June 4-7. For those days, and especially for June 6-7, the production is looking for volunteers in the following areas:

— Extras for the drawing class and surrealist party.

— Speaking-role actors for several characters. See below for information on the characters and auditions.

The work will be challenging, since the scenes will require a lot of careful coordination to do just right, but it will be a lot of fun, and from what I know about the project, the movie promises to be really amazing.

If you're interested in getting involved, send me an email at <aw2027@bard.edu> with your name, photo, contact info., major, a brief description of why you're interested, and if you have a place to stay off-campus for the two weeks of filming at Bard.

The Fly Room seeks actors to play several supporting roles as classmates of Betsy, the film's protagonist. The roles include:

— Clara (20-21)

She is seductive, free spirited and impulsive. She is Betsey's confidant and best friend. Clara is self-conscious and always wants to be the center of attention. Her noisiness and inability to keep a secret gets her into trouble.

— Bobbie (20-22)

Bobbie is a preppy, built young chap part of the highest ranked Fraternity society at Bard College. He loves to impress his male friends with ridiculous games and has a slight passive aggressive temperament especially when he is vexed or embarrassed in a group setting. He used to date Clara and they still flirt on occasions.

— Ed (mid-20s)

Ed is tall, built with dark features. He is Betsy's adventurous, passionate, and occasionally impulsive boyfriend. Ed is beginning a career as a naval architect in France and hopes that Betsy will join him there as his fiancée.

Other speaking roles include that of George, who greets party guests and flirts unsubtly with them, Arthur, who reads aloud about the World's Fair in costume as Salvador Dalí, and a couple of friends who discuss the World's Fair with Bobby, Clara, and Betsy.

Students who are interested in auditioning should send an email to <aw2027@bard.edu> to schedule a time slot, and then sides will be sent to them by email. Speaking-role auditions will take place at Olin 304 on Thursday, April 25, 4PM-8PM and on Friday, April 26, 10AM-5PM. Callbacks will also take place in Olin 304 on Friday, May 3 between 10AM and 8PM.

Sheva Fruitman: Evidence - Blue

Friday, April 26, 2013 – Friday, June 7, 2013

Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library VitrinesSheva Fruitman is a multi-faceted talent. A former photography major at Bard, she has worked, and exhibited frequently, as an artist, photographer, and designer. For the display cases in the Stevenson Library she has designed an installation that features some examples of her creations, organized around the theme of blue. The exhibition includes photographs, found objects, collages made from an old issue of Vogue magazine, and examples of her jewelry. She likes a recent quotation by Pico Iyer as a statement of her views about art making and living a creative life:

“it’s only by remaining constantly mobile, keeping your voice as fluid and versatile as the world around you, that you can begin to be true to who you really are.”Opening reception on April 26, 4:30–7:00 p.m.

Auditions for Feature Film The Fly Room

Seeking extras and actors for speaking rolesThe Fly Room to film at Bard on June 4-7

Friday, April 26, 201310 am – 5 pm

Olin 304Bard alumnus Alexis Gambis ('03) is bringing a very exciting project to Bard this spring. This project is the feature film The Fly Room, major scenes of which will be shot at Bard during the first week of June. The film will take viewers back to the 1920s, to a then-unknown, cramped laboratory where three scientists scrutinize hundreds of fruit flies in the hope of uncovering the first discoveries of modern genetics. Into this room steps Betsy, the nine year-old daughter of one of the researchers—the soon-to-be famous geneticist Calvin Bridges. Surrounded by hundreds of jars, hanging bananas, and drawings of Drosophila, Betsy struggles to understand how her father spends so much of his life in this place. Journeying into his world, she begins to understand what secrets the flies may hold. But it soon becomes clear that her father is hiding secrets of his own.

Most of the film will be shot in Brooklyn in an exact replica of the Fly Room (which will eventually open to the public as an exhibit sponsored by Science and Nature magazines), but several on-location sequences will be filmed here. Of those, two of the biggest ones will be a drawing class and a party at Manor where Betsy, as a college student in 1939, learns of her father's death from an article in the New York Times. The party scene in particular should be fun, since it will be surrealist-themed, with wild period costumes and Dalí/Duchamp-esque production design involving bicycles hanging from the ceiling.

I'm interning on the production and have been instructed to look for people who would be interested in getting involved. Filming at Bard will take place on June 4-7. For those days, and especially for June 6-7, the production is looking for volunteers in the following areas:

— Extras for the drawing class and surrealist party.

— Speaking-role actors for several characters. See below for information on the characters and auditions.

The work will be challenging, since the scenes will require a lot of careful coordination to do just right, but it will be a lot of fun, and from what I know about the project, the movie promises to be really amazing.

If you're interested in getting involved, send me an email at <aw2027@bard.edu> with your name, photo, contact info., major, a brief description of why you're interested, and if you have a place to stay off-campus for the two weeks of filming at Bard.

The Fly Room seeks actors to play several supporting roles as classmates of Betsy, the film's protagonist. The roles include:

— Clara (20-21)

She is seductive, free spirited and impulsive. She is Betsey's confidant and best friend. Clara is self-conscious and always wants to be the center of attention. Her noisiness and inability to keep a secret gets her into trouble.

— Bobbie (20-22)

Bobbie is a preppy, built young chap part of the highest ranked Fraternity society at Bard College. He loves to impress his male friends with ridiculous games and has a slight passive aggressive temperament especially when he is vexed or embarrassed in a group setting. He used to date Clara and they still flirt on occasions.

— Ed (mid-20s)

Ed is tall, built with dark features. He is Betsy's adventurous, passionate, and occasionally impulsive boyfriend. Ed is beginning a career as a naval architect in France and hopes that Betsy will join him there as his fiancée.

Other speaking roles include that of George, who greets party guests and flirts unsubtly with them, Arthur, who reads aloud about the World's Fair in costume as Salvador Dalí, and a couple of friends who discuss the World's Fair with Bobby, Clara, and Betsy.

Students who are interested in auditioning should send an email to <aw2027@bard.edu> to schedule a time slot, and then sides will be sent to them by email. Speaking-role auditions will take place at Olin 304 on Thursday, April 25, 4PM-8PM and on Friday, April 26, 10AM-5PM. Callbacks will also take place in Olin 304 on Friday, May 3 between 10AM and 8PM.

Mahler’s overwhelming Second Symphony projects a powerful narrative of life over death that resonates with philosophical issues the composer explored throughout his career. The monumental work builds in the final movement to a magnificent chorus that exalts the Resurrection.

Degree Recital: Kameryn Lueng, Soprano

Saturday, April 27, 20133 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building

Soprano Kameryn Lueng, originally from Pineville, Louisiana, is a second-year student in the Bard College Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program. She recently performed the lead role of the maid in the world premier of Four Sisters, an opera by composer Elena Langer. She has performed several lead roles, including Lucy in The Telephone, Madame Herz in The Impresario, Leticia in The Old Maid and the Thief, and Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical. Kameryn won the Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2009 and the Monroe Symphony Orchestra Competition in 2011. She graduated from Louisiana College with a Bachelor of Music Vocal Performance. Lueng currently studies with Julliard professor, Lorraine Nubar. In her spare time, Kameryn enjoys cooking, creating crayon art, and playing the bass guitar.

Music in the Holocaust, Jewish Identity and Cosmopolitanism

Part Three: Kurt Weill and the Modernist Migration: Music of Weill and Other Emigres

Saturday, April 27, 20137 pm

Olin HallThe Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College is presenting a special series of concerts titled, “Music in the Holocaust, Jewish Identity and Cosmopolitanism,” featuring music composed and performed by Jewish prisoners in Nazi territories during World War II. Three concerts will feature an introduction by a noted scholar in the field placing the music within the context of the larger social, historical and political background out of which it developed.

These events are made possible through the generosity of a grant from the Bertha Effron Fund of the Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley.

The third concert on Saturday, April 27, “Kurt Weill and the Modernist Migration: Music of Weill and Other Emigres” will focus on the work of Weill and his contribution to the American Songbook, as well as the reverberations of the Weimar cultural legacy in the United States. Weill was a resident of the Hudson Valley during his last decade and was an important figure in the German-Jewish exile community that took root in New York and Hollywood. The evening will feature songs from several of Weill’s American musicals including “Knickerbocker Holiday” (set in the colonial Dutch Hudson Valley) and the 1941 musical “Lady in the Dark,” as well as several of Weill’s works from his collaboration with Brecht. The lecture will touch upon the legacy of the Weimar Republic, the setting in which Weill’s collaboration with Bertolt Brecht took place, and its role in creating a culture that diverged from both the universalizing humanist and romantic nationalist strains of German cultural identity.

This event is free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are needed.

Mahler’s overwhelming Second Symphony projects a powerful narrative of life over death that resonates with philosophical issues the composer explored throughout his career. The monumental work builds in the final movement to a magnificent chorus that exalts the Resurrection.

Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestra

An Evening of Balinese Music and Dance

Saturday, April 27, 20138 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomHudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestras will host their annual spring concert at Bertelsmann Campus Center Multi-purpose Room (MPR) at Bard College. The program, featuring Balinese music and dance, begins at 8 p.m. Seating is general admission with a suggested donation of $10; free for Bard students, staff and faculty and children under the age of 16. Reservations are not necessary but it is advised that you arrive in plenty of time to secure your seat. For more information call 845-758-7250.

Plant Walk With Herbalist Dina Falconi

Sunday, April 28, 20131:30–3:30 pm

Community GardenHerbalist Dina Falconi will be taking us on a walk starting at the Bard Community Garden and ending at the Bard Farm. She will share with us medicinal plants along the way and how we can use them. For more information, call 646-391-9534, or e-mail ap6393@bard.edu.

Speakers Series: Dieter Roelstraete

Monday, April 29, 20133–5 pm

CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1Dieter Roelstraete is Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary art Chicago, where he recently organized Goshka Macuga: Exhibit, A (2012). From 2003 until 2011 he was a curator at the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA), where he organized large-scale group exhibitions as well as monographic shows, including Emotion Pictures (2005); Intertidal, a survey show of contemporary art from Vancouver (2005); The Order of Things (2008); Auguste Orts: Correspondence (2010); Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner – A Syntax of Dependency (2011); A Rua: The Spirit of Rio de Janeiro (2011); Chantal Akerman: Too Close, Too Far (2012) and the collaborative projects Academy: Learning from Art (2006), The Projection Project (2007), All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (2009), and Kerry James Marshall: Paintings and Other Stuff (2013). In 2005, Roelstraete co-curated Honoré d’O: The Quest in the Belgian pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. He has also organized solo exhibitions of work by Roy Arden (Vancouver Art Gallery, 2007), Steven Shearer (De Appel, Amsterdam, 2007), and Zin Taylor (Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, 2011), as well as group shows in galleries and institutions in Belgium and Germany. From 2007 until 2011 he taught at De Appel’s curatorial training program in Amsterdam and at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. A former editor of Afterall and co-founder of the journal FR David, Roelstraete has published extensively on contemporary art and related philosophical issues in numerous catalogues and journals including Artforum, e-flux journal, Frieze, Metropolis M, Mousse Magazine, and Texte zur Kunst. In 2010, his book Richard Long: A Line Made By Walking was published by Afterall Books/The MIT Press, and in 2012 a selection of annotated poems was published by Roma Publications.

About The Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

The Music Tapes

The Traveling Imaginary

Monday, April 29, 20137 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage RightTickets: $15; $5 for Bard students (reservations via the Box Office) Pitching the cozy circus tent they designed specially for this tour in towns and cities across North America, The Music Tapes will present a “magical and enchanting” (Bob Boilen, NPR) evening of songs, stories, games, movies, amusements, and more.

As soon as audiences walk through the door, they will be greeted with The Music Tapes’ surreal, carnival-esque gamesincluding antique 16mm cartoons, virtuoso klezmer music performed on the singing saw, Julian Koster's unique narratives about dehydrated European cities and half-imagined children's games, a 12-foot snowman, and an array of mechanical musical contraptions like the 7-foot tall metronome and Static the singing television. From there, the audience enters the tent for a dreamlike show that includes songs from the band's newest album Mary's Voice, "a grand, genre-straddling vision in sound" (Pitchfork).

Says Julian: “It’s our sincere desire to offer audiences an unusual sort of fun, a new kind of experience. Something that feels like exploring a wonderful dream or a pleasant memory. Something that gives a feeling of holiday and amusement that begins the very moment you walk in the door.”Sponsored by: Fisher Center; Live Arts Bard.

Hudson Valley Premiere of the Film Hannah Arendt

Monday, April 29, 20137–10 pm

Olin HallArendt’s controversial reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in the New Yorker introduced her now-famous concept of the “Banality of Evil.” Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, von Trotta turns the often invisible passion for thought into immersive, dramatic cinema.

An official selection at the Toronto International and New York Jewish Film Festivals, Hannah Arendt also co-stars Klaus Pohl as philosopher Martin Heidegger, Nicolas Woodeson as New Yorker editor William Shawn, and two-time Oscar Nominee Janet McTeer as novelist Mary McCarthy.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's writer Pam Katz, the film's star, Barbara Sukowa, who plays Hannah Arendt in the film, and Roger Berkowitz, the Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center.

Admission to this event is free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are necessary.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

Akbar Ganji Talk postponed

Tuesday, April 30, 20137–9 pm

Olin, Room 102Akbar Ganji is an Iranian journalist and writer. He has been described as "Iran’s preeminent political dissident", and a "wildly popular pro-democracy journalist" who has crossed press censorship "red lines" regularly. A supporter of the Islamic revolution as a youth, he became disenchanted in the mid-1990s and served time in Tehran's Evin Prison from 2001 to 2006 after publishing a series of stories on the murder of dissident authors known as the Chain Murders of Iran. While in prison he issued a manifesto which established him as the first "prominent dissident, believing Muslim and former revolutionary" to call for a replacement of Iran's theocratic system with "a democracy."

Having been named honorary citizen of many European cities and awarded distinctions for his writing and civil, Ganji has won several international awards for his work, including the World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression's International Press Freedom Award, the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, the Cato Institute Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty and the John Humphrey Freedom Award.